Hello Bill. Welcome to the CR list.
I believe your Trek is actually an '84 model, as that was the year for the aqua color. '85 was Pepto-Pink and '86 was yellow. Trek typically used particular colors for specific years. My wife's 770 is an '84, and was originally the aqua color. She purchased it new from a shop she worked at in Wisconsin. That bike can be seen here:
http://www.vintage-trek.com/
Lots of great Trek info is available on Skip Echert's Vintage Trek web site found here:
http://www.vintage-trek.com/
Included are scans of the catalogs from successive years.
Somehow I ended up with quite a few Treks, including 660, 760, & 770 from '84 (had an '84 720 too but sold it), an '83 700, a '78 TX 900 as well as the track bike here:
http://www.vintage-trek.com/
http://www.vintage-trek.com/
Nice bikes that are often overlooked. -- Wayne Bingham Lovettsville, Virginia USA
On Fri, Sep 5, 2008 at 10:56 AM, Silverman <rsilvercat@earthlink.net> wrote:
> Glad to be aboard the discussion group. Nice to see my buddy Don Gilles
> from Raleigh Team group is here, too.
>
> I just finished my latest restoration: a 1985 Trek 770, 531Pro tubing, Super
> Record gruppo, Mavic GP4 tubular rims, friction shifting (natch). According
> to the parameters, it seems like it's 2 years past the "vintage" cutoff
> date, but may be on the fence between the two definitions.
>
> Personally, I think the 80's will be looked back upon as the pinnacle of the
> friction-shift/lightweight steel bike era. The early 70's bike-boom had
> cooled, so crappy Euro and Asian bikes weren't flooding the market quite so
> much, a new crop of "boutique" lugged-frame artisans was emerging, frame
> geometries were getting tighter and more responsive (aka: "crit"
> geometries), index shifting was still a few years away, and tubular wheels
> weren't quite so exotic.
>
> Anyhow, if anyone wants to see the completed project, I posted pics on Road
> Bike Review:
>
> http://forums.roadbikereview.com/
>
> Sorry to hear the Classic Rendezvous has been cancelled for this year. I
> was thinking about exhibiting some of my steeds. Will anybody be doing any
> of the planned rides, such as going up to Mt. Wilson?
>
> Bill Silverman
> Pasadena, CA
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